Global population reduction: confronting the inevitable

Timebandit wrote:

Yes, actually, there are a number of secular NGOs doing work in that field. Plan (formerly Foster Parents Plan) has been active for decades, and Oxfam as well. UNICEF, too. The more money diverted from religious groups to secular, the faster that changes.

the way the Gecko's talk here no one is doing anything there and it's all up to them.

i'm not big on donating out of your community or country in the first place so haven't given a dime or time to the Geckos.

did some searching last night on all things Zimbabwe and i take even more exception to them now. the Zimbabwe government is going to give 10 billion dollars compensation to the white farmers whose property was taken back. if Zimbabweans are giving billions away to racist rich white farmers why do charitable organizations even need to be there?

former Zimbabweans formed a charity here in BC. linked to them above.

quizzical wrote:

should i support no children or one child rules?

No.

quizzical wrote:

should i support time and events forcing people to get educated or should we just insist?

No, we have no right to force anything on anyone and it's unnecessary.

quizzical wrote:

should i not want FN peoples across Canada to rebuild their populations?

Just the opposite. FN peoples are Canada's fastest growing demographic which is why it is so urgent that we help repair the communities that were destroyed and radically increase educational funding.

quizzical wrote:

truthfully i like how wide open spaces Canada is and i don't want it to become like other over populated countries.

There is no danger of that for many centuries to come. Our entire population is comparable to California.

quizzical wrote:

some countries will soon not be able to feed their populations, what do they do? what do we do? come here or feed them there, it's going to be catastrophic.

We offer them education in particular for women and contraception.

http://mic.com/articles/104488/here-s-what-happens-when-1-birth-control-...

According to the United Nations Population Fund, women with an unmet need for contraception account for 80% of unintended pregnancies throughout the globe, and 22 million women will have unsafe abortions each year. What's more, complications from pregnancy and childbirth remain a leading cause of death among women of reproductive age, claiming 800 lives every day. Many of these deaths, 99% of which occur in developing countries, could be prevented if women had access to contraception and reproductive health services. ...

It's all about the numbers. As if these stark statistics weren't reason enough to make birth control available for $1, there's an economic argument too.

Population Action International reports that for every $1 spent on family planning, we save $4 in other areas, including education, public health, water and sanitation. Plus, women who have access to contraception make roughly 40% more than those who don't, paving the way for greater economic success that benefits families and communities at large.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/17/2027231/unmet-demand-birth-co...

And the problem is getting worse. Between 2003 and 2012, the total number of women in need of birth control because they wanted to avoid pregnancy increased from 716 million to 867 million — and most of that growth was among women in the 69 poorest countries, where birth control is already more difficult to come by. About 222 million women in developing countries want to use birth control but aren’t currently able to access a modern contraceptive method, and nearly three quarters of those women live in the world’s poorest countries.